Samuel H. Kress Foundation

To encourage new ways of presenting European art to the American public, the Kress Foundation Old Masters in Context Program invites joint proposals from art curators and art historians (and art conservators, as appropriate) to interpret works of art in relation to their European origins. At the heart of the project is the premise that the knowledge gathered by the historian of art (why works of art were created, how they were originally seen, and what they meant to their first viewers) is potentially fascinating to the general public, and that imaginative ways of presenting this information will excite new interest in old master artists.

kfields@wustl.edu